Releases

Databricks introduced code-first Custom Agents for building, deploying and evaluating production agent systems using any LLM.

Hugging Face detailed a new storage and transfer architecture using Xet’s content-defined chunking to accelerate large repository operations.

Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.

Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.

Perplexity launched an AI shopping experience with product cards, recommendations, visual search and merchant integrations.

Mistral AI upgraded Le Chat with web search, canvas, image generation and richer document-understanding features.

Baidu launched a no-code platform for generating applications from natural language.

Perplexity launched a dedicated sourced hub for the 2024 United States election.

OpenAI launched web search in ChatGPT with timely answers and source links.

Oracle introduced a generative-AI clinical workflow and documentation agent.

GitHub introduces Spark, an AI-native tool for building application experiences from natural language.

Hugging Face launched HUGS, optimized zero-configuration deployment containers for open generative models.

IBM released Docling for converting complex business documents into structured AI-ready formats.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

Oracle released a managed retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise-agent service.

OpenAI began expanding ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with more natural real-time audio conversations.

Modal added secure tunnels and execution improvements for sandbox workloads.

Modal added improved object-storage bucket mounting for data-intensive jobs.

Modal expanded secret management for applications and integrations.

Modal expanded queue-based communication between serverless functions.

Modal expanded its persistent key-value storage capabilities.

Modal improved persistent volume performance and reliability.

Modal expanded persistent storage and data-access capabilities for cloud workloads.

Modal improved support for distributed and GPU-intensive training workloads.

Modal expanded GPU availability and lowered prices across supported accelerators.

Oracle introduced a natural-language assistant for exploring and explaining enterprise analytics.

Oracle expanded its analytics platform with AI-generated insights and application-aware data models.

NotebookLM adds Audio Overviews, generating conversational podcast-style discussions grounded in notebook sources.

Oracle integrated HeatWave GenAI and vector processing with multicloud lakehouse data.

Oracle expanded AutoML with larger models, topic modeling, drift detection and improved anomaly detection.

Anthropic added organization workspaces to separate API keys, usage, and access controls.

Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation entered public preview with integrated deployment, evaluation, tracing and governance.

Anthropic launched Claude for Enterprise with expanded context, security, administration, and GitHub integration.

CoreWeave publicly introduced Mission Control as its managed workflow for validating hardware, monitoring cluster health, and maintaining reliable AI infrastructure.

CoreWeave launched NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances and said it was the first cloud provider to bring the H200 to market.

IBM unveiled Telum II with upgraded on-chip AI acceleration for next-generation mainframes.

NVIDIA and partners launched reusable reference workflows for enterprise generative AI agents.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Mistral AI expanded La Plateforme with model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.

GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.

Perplexity launched a publisher program with revenue sharing, API access and technology support.

Meta launched AI Studio for creating, sharing and discovering custom AI characters.

OpenAI launched a limited prototype of SearchGPT with web answers and linked sources.

AWS made its generative-AI clinical documentation service generally available.

NVIDIA launched AI Foundry with NeMo, DGX Cloud and NIM services for building and deploying customized Llama 3.1 models.

CoreWeave announced NVIDIA HGX B200 and GB200 NVL72 Blackwell cluster configurations connected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand.

Microsoft Designer exits preview as a standalone app and expands generative design capabilities across Microsoft products.

Anthropic launched the native Claude application for Android.

Amazon broadly launched its generative-AI shopping assistant in the United States after an earlier beta.

AWS introduced a visual workflow builder for generative-AI applications.

AWS introduced prompt creation, versioning, testing and sharing capabilities.

Perplexity upgraded Pro Search for more advanced problem-solving, multi-step reasoning and research.

Baidu upgraded its AI coding assistant and repositioned it for enterprise and developer workflows.

Oracle expanded HeatWave from analytics and AutoML into an integrated generative-AI platform.

Oracle released automated in-database vector creation, storage and retrieval for HeatWave.

Oracle released in-database LLMs, automated vector storage and natural-language chat in HeatWave.

Hugging Face refreshed the Open LLM Leaderboard with a harder, contamination-resistant suite and new scoring methodology.

Anthropic expanded Claude availability for US government and intelligence-community customers through AWS.

Anthropic launched Projects for organizing chats, knowledge, and collaboration around sustained work.

Anthropic introduced Artifacts, a side-by-side workspace for creating and iterating on Claude-generated content.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

Databricks introduced Apps for building and deploying secure data and AI applications directly on the platform.

Databricks introduced AI/BI, pairing AI-assisted dashboards with Genie conversational analytics built on a compound AI system.

Databricks introduced MLflow Tracing for end-to-end observability and debugging of generative-AI applications and agents.

Databricks launched a framework for authoring, evaluating, deploying and monitoring production-quality compound AI systems.

Hugging Face released FineWeb-Edu, an educationally filtered subset that showed strong gains for small-model pretraining.

NVIDIA made ACE generative AI microservices generally available for cloud-based digital-human applications.

Oracle made its voice-first clinical assistant available for healthcare workflows.

Hugging Face released FineWeb, a 15-trillion-token filtered and deduplicated English web dataset for language-model pretraining.

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu for universities, with enterprise-grade controls and access to GPT-4o.

Scale made its model-evaluation platform generally available for model developers, enterprises, and public-sector organizations.

Scale launched expert-evaluated leaderboards for coding, instruction following, mathematics, and multilinguality using private, contamination-resistant prompt sets.

Microsoft announces Recall, an on-device searchable visual history for Copilot+ PCs with user privacy controls.

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs with neural processing units and a new generation of on-device AI experiences.

Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.

Google announces Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, with major gains in compute performance and energy efficiency.

Anthropic expanded Claude.ai and its mobile app to users and businesses across Europe.

Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold Server for free research access to AlphaFold 3 predictions.

Red Hat expanded OpenShift AI as the hybrid-cloud operating layer for model development and serving.

Red Hat and IBM introduced InstructLab for community-driven model skills and alignment.

Red Hat introduced RHEL AI as a foundation-model platform for developing, testing and running open models.

Oracle announced a generative coding assistant optimized for Java, SQL and OCI development.

Oracle expanded natural-language-to-SQL and retrieval capabilities for Autonomous Database.

Oracle repositioned its flagship database around integrated AI for enterprise data.

Oracle released native vector generation, indexing and semantic similarity search alongside SQL.

Oracle released Database 23ai with integrated vector search and AI-focused developer capabilities.

Anthropic launched its first native Claude application for iOS.

Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan for collaborative organizational use.

AWS folded Amazon CodeWhisperer into Amazon Q Developer while preserving its coding-assistance capabilities.

AWS made its software-development assistant generally available and incorporated CodeWhisperer capabilities.

AWS made its enterprise generative-AI assistant generally available.

GitHub opens a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, an agentic environment for moving from issues to plans and implementations.

Perplexity launched Enterprise Pro, its first business subscription with organizational search, security and data controls.

AWS made configurable Bedrock safety controls generally available.